State of California
AIR RESOURCES BOARD
Air Pollution Control District Building
939 Ellis Street
San Francisco, CA
May 21, 1969
9:30 a.m.
AGENDA
1. Opening Remarks . . . . . A.J. Haagen-Smit, Ph.D., Chairman.
2. Business Meeting.
a. Minutes of March 19, 1969 Meeting.
b. Report of Technical Advisory Committee.
1. Air Quality Standards.
c. Air Basins and Air Quality Standards - Report on
Implementation.
d. Public Hearing - Durability Factor for Evaporative Loss
Control Systems.
e. Report on Emission Control Projects.
1. Oxides of Nitrogen Control.
2. AB 690.
3. Diesel Smoke Project.
f. Certification of Control Systems.
g. Experimental Permits.
h. Committee Reports.
1. Research and Development Review.
2. Legislation, Laws and Regulations.
3. Public Information.
3. Other Business.
4. Remarks from the Audience.
ITEM
Progress Report on Federal Grant to Demonstrate Technological
Feasibility of Controlling Oxides of Nitrogen from Vehicular
Exhausts.
INTRODUCTION
The Arco Chemical Company, a division of Atlantic Richfield
Company, has developed an automobile exhaust recycle system which
has shown to be effective in reducing oxides of nitrogen. Under
a Federal demonstration grant (#68A0605D), the Air Resources
Laboratory is in the process of making an extensive evaluation of
the exhaust recycle system.
In accordance with the terms of the grant the Air Resources Board
has a contract with Arco Chemical Company for the design,
fabrication and installation of the system on a fleet of state
owned vehicles.
ITEM
Progress Report on AB 690 Exhaust Control Testing Program.
Pursuant to the 1968 California legislative enactment of Assembly
Bill No. 690, the Air Resources Laboratory is involved in a test
program to evaluate low emission exhaust control systems. These
systems will be installed on a fleet of state-owned vehicles and
are required to reduce the emissions as near as is
technologically feasible to one gram per mile of hydrocarbons, 15
grams per mile of carbon monoxide and 1.5 grams per mile of
oxides of nitrogen.
In accordance with the requirements of the bill, the Air
Resources Board has negotiated a contract with George W.
Cornelius, San Pedro, California and with Chromalloy American
Corporation, Hawthorne, California; A revised proposal was
submitted late in April by the University of California, Los
Angeles and a contract is in the process of being negotiated.